I have read the entire section, hence the quote of multiple lines of rules supporting my claim. You have quoted a few that have been disproven. This is a simple discussion, I make a claim with supporting rules. You support you claim with supporting rules and discredit my interpretation of the rules. I then return the favor. Can you quote me a rule the supports “The Act of using reserves is ‘Deploying’.” I have read the section 3 times today and cannot find it.
You my friend are partially correct, INF PLT is one FOC. But if you read all of the rules on p96 C:IG after ‘Composition’ you will see that: “…,and is rolled collectively when rolling for reserves.” And since Codex trumps BRB, we make one roll for reserves for the entire platoon. After that, each unit can be placed where ever it is legal to do so, be it together or spread all over the board.
Context? Deploying Forces and Mission special rules sections are the only sections we need out of the BRB. They give us all the context we need as we are only discussing deployment and reserves interaction. The quotes I have used support my claim, so I do not see how I am using them incorrectly. That is what rules quotes do, support a claim on how the game is played. This is not a petty grammar claim, the rules are pretty clear multiple times, as shown in post #9. Unless the BRB or codex does not say something to the effect that units held in reserves are deployed, then units held in reserves are not deployed.
You have yet to quote a line in the BRB or a codex that changes the fact that “ …,player may choose NOT TO DEPLOY one or more units in their army and INSTEAD leave them in reserves.” Seems pretty clear to me.
The fact that deployment is between 2 other phases/steps/etc means nothing besides a note on when something happens, not that everything in that phase/step/etc is counted as the name of the phase/step/etc. Again I state, we can use psychic powers in the movement phase, but that does not (generally) mean that the unit using the power cannot move or the power counts as movement. The same with reserves, we declare reserves during deployment but that does not make it deployment.
Drop pods are clarified because I could claim, without such a clarification, that when I combat squad out of a drop pod the squads could deploy anywhere on the board as per “Both combat squads can be deployed in separate locations.” (p51, C:SM). As the next line is the “one exception” to the afore mentioned rule.
Combat squading occurs during a units deployment, this is the only requirement for when it may happen. This is normally done during the deployment phase/step/etc but is not limited to this phase/step/etc by the rules that I see.
Lobster-overlord, I too have seem WD battle reports do fishing things. But some of these battle reports are months (years?) old or are part of a play testing of early rules. They also make mistakes (or use house rules) just like everyone else. At least that is what I have been told by the interwebz.